Existen muchas reglas para los negocios, y hay muchas preguntas que tiene uno que piensar en abrir su negocio ¿A cuál mercado se dirige? ¿Quiénes son su competencia? ¿Tiene la destreza directiva necesaria para operar su negocio? Teniendo el dinero necesario para comenzar y operar su negocio es muy importante. Éstas y más preguntas serán las respuestas del seminaro, Cómo Comenzar y Operar Correctamente su Negocio.
Need a place to work or want to learn more about LSW16 or the community?
Join us at our Basecamp at Archethought Coworking, at the corner of Terry St and 4th Avenue (the old Times Call building). Just two blocks off Main St. Plenty of parking space, including the parking lot across the street on Terry.
Plenty of bandwidth for Wi-Fi, ample working stations and a conference room (by reservation). Plenty of free coffee, bottled water and snacks.
There will be a Job Board for those looking for jobs and those looking for employees.
Have you ever had a cool idea and built something, but it died because no one used it? Join us for an interactive session where we’ll use lean startup techniques to help you validate an idea before you build it. Teams will run in super fast sprints to figure out a problem to solve and a customer to solve it for, and walk out the door with paper prototypes.
It's easy in a lean process to skip steps and go straight to solution, or not validate the problem/customer/value prop/solution before moving on to channels/metrics. In this session, you step away from the process to validate with "customers" (other teams) and build a rapid prototype (paper prototyping).
This session will cover Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants, as well as Colorado Advanced Industries Grants.
The Small Business Research Innovation Research program is a highly competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development that has the potential for commercialization.
The Advanced Industries Export Grant is a Colorado financial assistance program for aspiring and current exporters in Colorado's advanced industries (Aerospace, Bioscience, Electronics, Energy and Natural Resources, Infrastructure Engineering, Technology and Information, and Advanced Manufacturing).
Participants will go away learning the requirements and process for applying for each type of grant , as well as tips to increase the chance for award and possible errors to avoid when applying.
This session is most appropriate for exsisting and early stage businesses.
There is a plethora of good advice on how to launch an idea into a business: how to pitch, how to create a sound business plan, how to brand your product, how to raise money and so forth. You may have a great product, but without customers it’s just a product! It takes customers to make it a business!
Entrepreneurs like to be in control, and they have the expertise to control their product – what it does, how it performs, how it looks, even how much it costs. But they will never control the customer – they have their own needs, priorities and timetables, which frustratingly, do not usually match yours.
Startup business owners are typically most uncomfortable with the sales aspect of their role as CEO or Owner. They may be inexperienced, feel inadequate or see it as unproductive time taken away from other more “important” issues.
In this session we will share some ideas on how to take the pain and mystery out of sales, whether you are a CEO that needs to step up and do sales, a founder team that needs to share the load or perhaps you are thinking of hiring your first salesperson. Remember – without customers you are just spending money, not making it!
There are more options today for early stage funding than ever before. Explore the landscape of current options with this panel of experts to help chart a long -term course for your company, today and in the future.
Need a place to work or want to learn more about LSW16 or the community?
Join us at our Basecamp at Archethought Coworking, at the corner of Terry St and 4th Avenue (the old Times Call building). Just two blocks off Main St. Plenty of parking space, including the parking lot across the street on Terry.
Plenty of bandwidth for Wi-Fi, ample working stations and a conference room (by reservation). Plenty of free coffee, bottled water and snacks.
There will be a Job Board for those looking for jobs and those looking for employees.
We will have a panel of tenacious, brillant founders and executives of eary stage Bioscience and Medical Device companies. They will discuss what inspired them to take this risky journey of entrepeneurship in the perilous path of a biotech startup. You will be stimulated by their passion for their company and technologies. Most of the panelist participanted in 2015 and will share their progress and challenges over the past year.
Plan the successful launch or growth of your business with the Startup Roadmap workshop. Instructors will use the Business Model Canvas to identify key challenges you’ll need to address as your business grows. Attendees can expect to:
• Begin a draft of their Business Model Canvas
• Understand how it serves as a foundation for a business plan
• Draft basic financial projections and understand cash-flow vs. income
• Be provided a list of resources to dig deeper
Startup Roadmap is a three-hour, hands-on workshop with a focus on making key business concepts clear, accessible and actionable.
Please formally register for this event on Boulder SBDC's website: https://clients.coloradosbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=50360038
Existen muchas reglas para los negocios, y hay muchas preguntas que tiene uno que piensar en abrir su negocio ¿A cuál mercado se dirige? ¿Quiénes son su competencia? ¿Tiene la destreza directiva necesaria para operar su negocio? Teniendo el dinero necesario para comenzar y operar su negocio es muy importante. Éstas y más preguntas serán las respuestas del seminaro, Cómo Comenzar y Operar Correctamente su Negocio.
Need a place to work or want to learn more about LSW16 or the community?
Join us at our Basecamp at Archethought Coworking, at the corner of Terry St and 4th Avenue (the old Times Call building). Just two blocks off Main St. Plenty of parking space, including the parking lot across the street on Terry.
Plenty of bandwidth for Wi-Fi, ample working stations and a conference room (by reservation). Plenty of free coffee, bottled water and snacks.
There will be a Job Board for those looking for jobs and those looking for employees.
Join the Longmont Economic Development Partnership (EDP) for a speed networking luncheon with the Advance Longmont Partners. Longmont EDP Vice President, Wendi Nafziger will give an overview of the Advance Longmont Strategic Economic Development plan and the collaborations among the key organizations that drive the implementation of this plan. Then, during five ten-minute speed networking sessions, you will have the opportunity to visit one-on-one with any of the Advance Longmont Partners of your choosing. Our Advance Longmont Partners include: Longmont EDP, City of Longmont, TinkerMill, Longmont Downtown Development Authority, Longmont Housing Authority, Startup Longmont, Boulder Small Business Development Center, Front Range Community College, St. Vrain Valley School District, The Latino Chamber, Longmont Community Foundation, Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce, and Visit Longmont.
**Brownbag lunches will be provided.
Consumer awareness of the connected home and devices is growing, has IOT reached the mainstream? Yet, not as robust as the industrial ecosystem.
Everyone is obsessed with millennials – they’ve been called lazy, entitled, competitive, collaborative, tech-savvy…but who are millennials really? Morgan Smith (a bonafide millennial himself) will be sharing insights about generational attitudes toward politics, work, technology, corporate social responsibility, and much more. Come and learn why you need young people in your business and the secrets of how to attract talented young workers. This talk will challenge your notions about who young people are and what business culture should look like in the future.
Need a place to work or want to learn more about LSW16 or the community?
Join us at our Basecamp at Archethought Coworking, at the corner of Terry St and 4th Avenue (the old Times Call building). Just two blocks off Main St. Plenty of parking space, including the parking lot across the street on Terry.
Plenty of bandwidth for Wi-Fi, ample working stations and a conference room (by reservation). Plenty of free coffee, bottled water and snacks.
There will be a Job Board for those looking for jobs and those looking for employees.
Spend some time with the leadership of our Community's Nonprofit Organizations and learn about the tools and techniques they have used to take their vision to fruition; how they successfully lead and integrate staff and volunteers; how they stay connected to their organizations. They will share their stories on what has and hasn't worked and how they lead with passion and sometimes on a shoestring budget.
Where do you store your truck? Where do you keep your food? How and where and when do you get you food and supplies? How to build and maintain a website that keeps your customers in the know about where you’ll be. Become a wiz with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all the social media you need.
Recent scholarship has reported a higher percentage of IPOS and acquisitions among startups that have received patents, and found that patents open the door to funding opportunities.
The Director of the Rocky Mountain Regional United States Patent Office will provide an overview of the key forms of intellectual property that startups should be on the lookout for, and consider protecting, and will then discuss the above findings in sharing several strategies to consider in leveraging IP to enhance the likelihood of commercial success.
"The Rooster Party is a community of creatives that believes in people and desperately wants the world to experience hope. We’re building community, throwing parties, selling products, sharing stories, and giving away proceeds to people and projects that are committed to hope.
We have a lot of work to do. The resounding message coming from our culture is to give up, and to give into despair. But if you listen closely you can hear the growing sound of people everywhere, screaming into the darkness that THERE IS HOPE."
Need a place to work or want to learn more about LSW16 or the community?
Join us at our Basecamp at Archethought Coworking, at the corner of Terry St and 4th Avenue (the old Times Call building). Just two blocks off Main St. Plenty of parking space, including the parking lot across the street on Terry.
Plenty of bandwidth for Wi-Fi, ample working stations and a conference room (by reservation). Plenty of free coffee, bottled water and snacks.
There will be a Job Board for those looking for jobs and those looking for employees.
Discover new capital sources for promising "social" enterprises, from some of the largest funds and funders in the state, and learn how to fund and be funded.
Who should go
• Startups and growing businesses interested in new sources of capital;
• Foundations, investors and wealth advisors interested in more flexible investing;
Who you’ll meet:
• Doug Johnson, Panel Moderator, Chair of Tiger 21 & VP Impact Finance Center & CO Impact Days and Initiative
• Dr. Stephanie Gripne, Founder - Impact Finance Center & CO Impact Days and Initiative
Nicole Bagley, Arca Foundation Trustee and Impact Finance Center & CO Impact Days and Initiative
Ed Bogle, Bogle and Associates, Inc, www.IdeationEDGE.com
Chris Salter, Music Wizard founder and Music Play Land CEO
What will people learn:
• Why and how foundations and philanthropists are investing in startups, and how it can grow their endowments.
• How startups and foundations can work TOGETHER to make positive change, and grow their impact.
Can we change the gig-to-gig, gallery show-to-show model? Can adopting start-up business steps turn your art career into a more profitable and sustainable business?
Learn how to create a sustainable business for your visual art, music and more with the help of our panel of business-building experts.
Our goal: help you identify your market (aka: find your beachhead), target your product(s) to serve those customers (land on that beachhead), and grow your business (push inland).
The problem's a big one...and so's the opportunity. Let's hack ways to ditch the starving artists mold together!There will be two executive fitness rides offered on Saturday morning at 8am
AND a Cruiser Ride with Ryan Kragerud and Bicycle Longmont at 9:30
Here are the details for getting out of our seats and onto the road for some exercise Or taking a cruise through downtown. Leave your bike and Car at Roosevelt Park and take the Brew Hop Trolley to the Museum for the 10:30 session and 12:30 Pitch Fest. Trolley will return from Museum to Park at 2pm.
The gist is a no-drop ride at two different base speeds: a touch over 14 mph and a touch over 18 mph. This should be conversational pace for most of the group. But there's more. The rides have some short High Intensity efforts sprinkled in to provide some banter where legs do the talking. After blowing out the carbon, the front group of riders will circle back to do a "pick me up" to encourage subsequent riders through their effort.
We will have two groups for the endurance ride.
Clint Bickmore will lead one group on the following route.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/14221412
This should take an hour and a half at just over 18 MPH.
Dixon Dick is going to lead the second group on this route.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/14221697
We need them to bust it out in an hour and a half too.
We will then meet back up at Roosevelt park at 9:30 for the cruiser ride. Riders can elect to cruise or trolley to the next sessions. Trolley schedule will be posted here soon.
The cruiser ride is focused on community building as opposed to a hard core effort. We will don our cruiser 'tude and stroll through Old Town to the Longmont Library. Some riders will jump into a session at the library, and others will continue to the Longmont Museum complex.
All riders should refresh themselves with the CDOT Bicycle manual found here.
https://www.codot.gov/programs/bikeped/information-for-bicyclists/bike-ped-manual
Rubber hits the road at 8 AM.
Inexperience, school, friends and parents can all impact your ability to take advantage of opportunities. Lachan will talk about how he's dealt with those obstacles, as well as how he's discovered his opportunities.
Attendance is FREE for LSW participants, attend any session to hear how. Going to be a RAD party to close out the week! 1st Beer per person is also being generously provided by Left Hand Brewing.
Startup Tent at RockMont- sponsored by High Plains Bank. Rockmont is a music + art fest bringing indie rock bands on the rise and a robust showcase of local artists to the Longmont stage. Presented by Left Hand Brewing Co. and the Arts Longmont, the summer concert will bring a diverse sound of rock, punk, funk, and soul with national touring acts featuring J Roddy Walston and The Business, Orgone, and more. Sip from Longmont’s 8 local breweries with local fare a plenty, while taking in the Front Range sunshine.
RockMont is a benefit for Arts Longmont and the LHB Foundation.
Please bring your ID to purchase beer.
See more at: http://lefthandbrewing.com/events/rockmont2016/#sthash.ZwLuxQfB.dpuf